ANATOMY OF AN EPIDEMIC

Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues to soar. Every day, 850 adults and 250 children with a mental illness are added to the government disability rolls. What is going on?

SOURCE DOCUMENTS

Anatomy of an Epidemic reviews the scientific literature to investigate the long-term effects of psychiatric medications. These documents provide access to the abstracts (or complete articles) referred to in the book.

PRESENTATION SLIDES

Robert Whitaker’s slide presentations on the long-term effects of psychiatric medications for major mental disorders in adults, and on the “evidence-base” for the prescribing of psychiatric drugs to children.